School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Baile an Mhuilinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 497
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In the morning they used to eat porridge made of oat-meal and drank with it buttermilk, and in the evening they had potatoes and buttermilk for their supper, and in some places they used to eat potatoes late in the evening before they went to bed. The old people never drank a drop of tea. When they had bread to eat, it would be wheaten-bread, made from their own wheat-meal, in some places they made bread from bran, but it was seldom they had any bread to eat. Any time there was meat eaten, it was bacon, and only sometimes they had fish. When the old people had vegetables to eat, it was generally nettles they had instead of cabbage. All people eat(continues on next page)
